Posts Tagged with ‘mental game’
The festival’s over – how do you hold onto the screenwriting energy?
28 Oct 2014Festivals and workshops are great, they get you out of the house and you get high on a great buzz…
Fire Up Your Writing Career
06 Mar 2013Here's a psychological tool to help with focusing your writer's mind - dealing with issues such as procrastination and self-sabotage, and staying creative.
Are we there yet?
30 Jul 2012There must be something in the air: I’m in the mood for finishing things. I just finished writing a novel…
Losing faith in your work?
22 Mar 2012Losing faith in your work happens to the best writers - and it can be lethal. The story starts to feel flat. The emotions false. The scenes mechanical. Soon you wonder what you even saw in the idea.
Stuck? A simple way to get your work moving.
09 Mar 2012Here's a deceptively simple method for literally getting your work to move forwards - but don't be fooled. Like many simple ideas it can be profoundly useful. It works for all kinds of screenwriting, and other creative work, and also for problems in directing and producing.
Writing successfully in a recession
15 Nov 2011I’m thinking a good deal about creativity at the moment, as I plan Unblock Your Creativity. In particular I’m aware…
Modelling for Writers (not Naomi Campbell)
15 Mar 2011Few books on writing ever deal with the mental game of writing, but getting your mental game right is crucial. Today's post gives you one of the most powerful and far-reaching tools I've discovered for getting better at anything.
A tip to help you with the mental game of creative success
14 Apr 2010The more I write, and the more I work with writers, the more I am sure it's the same. You need to work on your skills, and equally you need to work on your mental game. The trouble is, very few people teach us how to do this.
